The Relationality and Representability of Biopolitical Crises

Abstract

The present chapter proposes the expansion of the discussion on biopolitics by going beyond the traditional readings of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Instead, building on the generative opacities of Foucault’s thought, as well as on feminist thinkers like Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti, it reflects on lived life as a potential source of political response and perhaps even resistance to power. It develops its discussion not as antagonistic criticism, but in tune with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of beside (Sedgwick 2003, 8).